Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;

The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.

The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.

The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; and thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.

Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones.

Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.

And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.

Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.

Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.

Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?

For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.